Note: text in Irish, parallel translation in English. Power does not attempt rhyming couplets for his translation striving for closeness to the text instead. The text he uses is 1,096
which is 70 lines longer than the text commonly used with the extra text not in a single contiguous block.

Note: According to the The Oxford Companion to Irish LiteratureThe definitive text, together with Woulfs translation.
The Woulfe in question is Denis Woulfe (Donnchadh Ulf), another Clareman, who, in the 1820s, was the first to translate the work.

Thus, Ó Murchú does not provide his own translation but, instead, makes the historically important contribution of reproducing the first translation.
As Ó Murchú points out, this has the benefit of providing the take of Merriman’s fellow Clareman a mere forty years after the work was composed and also Woulf’s English has traits that are somewhat interesting in themselves.

Addtionally, Ó Murchú provides (in Irish) an introduction, general notes, language notes, notes on the meter and a glossary of words not found in the standard Irish dictionary. I did not get a copy of the Ó Murchú’s book until 2003 so I did not have the benefit of all this material in 1998.
He used what is thought to be Merriman’s own manuscript while I used Ó Foghlú’s 1912 edition and we both modernized our texts separately.
I don’t have anything like Ó Murchú’s academic chops and I haven’t compared all 1,026 lines of our texts.
Nonetheless, what I have compared doesn’t give me concern that my own effort is not adequate for a non-academic presentation of the work.

Note: Includes extensive introduction, notes on variants, West Munster speech patterns, modern Irish meters, and an exhaustive glossarybut all are in German. "The first adequate edition of the Cuirt," Piaras Béaslaí.

Translation
English:

The midnight court and The adventures of a luckless fellow

Translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher with a pref. by W. B. Yeats & woodcuts by Frank W. Peers.

Published: [Folcroft, Pa.] Folcroft Library Editions, 1974, 79 p. illus. 23 cm., ISBN: 0841488525, Reprint of the 1926 edition published by Boni and Liveright, New York. This is the first verse translation of the work.

Note: The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow referred to in the title is a translation of Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin (c. 1750), a lengthy poem by Donncha Rua Mac Conmara (1715-1810). In it, the poet describes his possibly imaginary emigration to Newfoundland. In a bout of seasickness, the goddess Aoibheall of Liath Craig, who plays a central role in the Cúirt, appears to the poet and takes him to Acheron.

The Midnight Court by Bryan Merriman,

Newly translated into English by David Marcus, with cuts by Michael Biggs, Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1967, 43p.

The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman,

a new translation by Cosslett O Cuinn with illustrations by John Verling, The Mercier Press, Dublin & Cork, 1982, 87p., ISBN 0853426570, 0853426589.

in An Duanaire: An Irish Anthology1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed, Presented by Seán Ó Tuama with translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella, The University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia, 1981.372 lines of text and translation.

Note: text in Irish, parallel translation in English. Power does not attempt rhyming couplets for his translation striving for closeness to the text instead. The text he uses is 1,096
which is 70 lines longer than the text commonly used with the extra text not in a single contiguous block.

Note: According to the The Oxford Companion to Irish LiteratureThe definitive text, together with Woulfs translation.
The Woulfe in question is Denis Woulfe (Donnchadh Ulf), another Clareman, who, in the 1820s, was the first to translate the work.

Thus, Ó Murchú does not provide his own translation but, instead, makes the historically important contribution of reproducing the first translation.
As Ó Murchú points out, this has the benefit of providing the take of Merriman’s fellow Clareman a mere forty years after the work was composed and also Woulf’s English has traits that are somewhat interesting in themselves.

Addtionally, Ó Murchú provides (in Irish) an introduction, general notes, language notes, notes on the meter and a glossary of words not found in the standard Irish dictionary. I did not get a copy of the Ó Murchú’s book until 2003 so I did not have the benefit of all this material in 1998.
He used what is thought to be Merriman’s own manuscript while I used Ó Foghlú’s 1912 edition and we both modernized our texts separately.
I don’t have anything like Ó Murchú’s academic chops and I haven’t compared all 1,026 lines of our texts.
Nonetheless, what I have compared doesn’t give me concern that my own effort is not adequate for a non-academic presentation of the work.

Note: Includes extensive introduction, notes on variants, West Munster speech patterns, modern Irish meters, and an exhaustive glossarybut all are in German. "The first adequate edition of the Cuirt," Piaras Béaslaí.

Translation
English:

The midnight court and The adventures of a luckless fellow

Translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher with a pref. by W. B. Yeats & woodcuts by Frank W. Peers.

Published: [Folcroft, Pa.] Folcroft Library Editions, 1974, 79 p. illus. 23 cm., ISBN: 0841488525, Reprint of the 1926 edition published by Boni and Liveright, New York. This is the first verse translation of the work.

Note: The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow referred to in the title is a translation of Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin (c. 1750), a lengthy poem by Donncha Rua Mac Conmara (1715-1810). In it, the poet describes his possibly imaginary emigration to Newfoundland. In a bout of seasickness, the goddess Aoibheall of Liath Craig, who plays a central role in the Cúirt, appears to the poet and takes him to Acheron.

The Midnight Court by Bryan Merriman,

Newly translated into English by David Marcus, with cuts by Michael Biggs, Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1967, 43p.

The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman,

a new translation by Cosslett O Cuinn with illustrations by John Verling, The Mercier Press, Dublin & Cork, 1982, 87p., ISBN 0853426570, 0853426589.

in An Duanaire: An Irish Anthology1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed, Presented by Seán Ó Tuama with translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella, The University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia, 1981.372 lines of text and translation.

Note: text in Irish, parallel translation in English. Power does not attempt rhyming couplets for his translation striving for closeness to the text instead. The text he uses is 1,096
which is 70 lines longer than the text commonly used with the extra text not in a single contiguous block.

Note: According to the The Oxford Companion to Irish LiteratureThe definitive text, together with Woulfs translation.
The Woulfe in question is Denis Woulfe (Donnchadh Ulf), another Clareman, who, in the 1820s, was the first to translate the work.

Thus, Ó Murchú does not provide his own translation but, instead, makes the historically important contribution of reproducing the first translation.
As Ó Murchú points out, this has the benefit of providing the take of Merriman’s fellow Clareman a mere forty years after the work was composed and also Woulf’s English has traits that are somewhat interesting in themselves.

Addtionally, Ó Murchú provides (in Irish) an introduction, general notes, language notes, notes on the meter and a glossary of words not found in the standard Irish dictionary. I did not get a copy of the Ó Murchú’s book until 2003 so I did not have the benefit of all this material in 1998.
He used what is thought to be Merriman’s own manuscript while I used Ó Foghlú’s 1912 edition and we both modernized our texts separately.
I don’t have anything like Ó Murchú’s academic chops and I haven’t compared all 1,026 lines of our texts.
Nonetheless, what I have compared doesn’t give me concern that my own effort is not adequate for a non-academic presentation of the work.

Note: Includes extensive introduction, notes on variants, West Munster speech patterns, modern Irish meters, and an exhaustive glossarybut all are in German. "The first adequate edition of the Cuirt," Piaras Béaslaí.

Translation
English:

The midnight court and The adventures of a luckless fellow

Translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher with a pref. by W. B. Yeats & woodcuts by Frank W. Peers.

Published: [Folcroft, Pa.] Folcroft Library Editions, 1974, 79 p. illus. 23 cm., ISBN: 0841488525, Reprint of the 1926 edition published by Boni and Liveright, New York. This is the first verse translation of the work.

Note: The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow referred to in the title is a translation of Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin (c. 1750), a lengthy poem by Donncha Rua Mac Conmara (1715-1810). In it, the poet describes his possibly imaginary emigration to Newfoundland. In a bout of seasickness, the goddess Aoibheall of Liath Craig, who plays a central role in the Cúirt, appears to the poet and takes him to Acheron.

The Midnight Court by Bryan Merriman,

Newly translated into English by David Marcus, with cuts by Michael Biggs, Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1967, 43p.

The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman,

a new translation by Cosslett O Cuinn with illustrations by John Verling, The Mercier Press, Dublin & Cork, 1982, 87p., ISBN 0853426570, 0853426589.

in An Duanaire: An Irish Anthology1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed, Presented by Seán Ó Tuama with translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella, The University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia, 1981.372 lines of text and translation.

An RTÉ radio documentary by Cathal Póirtéir to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Brian Merriman.
The Appeal of the Midnight Court features commentary in English and Irish and readings from the original poem.
My sister-in-law, Máire Ní Annracháin, Professor of Modern Irish at UCD, is the only female commentator, a curious state of affairs for a work that is centrally about the role of women in society.